Happy Jack

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1483867012' post='3210651'] My personal Holy Grail would be a T-Bird that sat comfortably. [/quote] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird%20Body%20-%20front%205_zpsxojabkgh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird%20Body%20-%20front%205_zpsxojabkgh.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird%20-%20headstock%201_zps2pyuirvi.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird%20-%20headstock%201_zps2pyuirvi.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1483959788' post='3211353'] Morning all, ... what happens when you become 'famous' (or your band does)? [/quote] Yeh, I hate it when that happens.

And don't get me started on piccolo snares ...

A bit of confusion here. Given the interest in chords, I reckon that by Bass VI the OP means a baritone-style bass, as in a 6-string guitar tuned an octave down. In other words, [u][b]not [/b][/u]a 6-string bass as in BEADGC.

... Johnny's just re-started the music stand argument. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/johnnyplaysfolsom_large-1-historic-photos_zpssk8bxfvf.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/johnnyplaysfolsom_large-1-historic-photos_zpssk8bxfvf.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1483721719' post='3209593'] Does it really matter though, I don't do many things people 50 years older than me did and people fifty years younger than me probably won't do the things I enjoy either. [/quote] Still trying to work that one out ...

[quote name='Roo Hobbers' timestamp='1483713882' post='3209478'] On a slightly separate note, any info or advice for finding decent musicians would be most welcome. [/quote] Don't be too specific or restrictive. Even here, you've suggested (to a Forum of bass players) how your bass player should play - pick / fingerstyle - and the technique they should use - chords please, and this is the instrument you should probably buy in order to play them! You've asked for advice, so mine would be to invite musicians to tell you how they'd like to play. If they're not good enough to know what's right for the song, then they probably won't be in your band in the first place.

You're sure it wasn't Great White?

If mine are anything to go by, the competition from 183 channels of complete crap on cable TV [b]PLUS [/b]millions of aliens needing to be slaughtered on X-Box [b]PLUS [/b]hundreds of supposed 'friends' to interact with on Facebook pretty much wipe out their spare time.

Mick, you need to get out more mate.

Have you checked that it's the string that's doing the actual buzzing, rather than the tuner itself? Try holding the tuner (instead of pressing down on the string between nut and tuner) and playing the note.

[quote name='radiophonic' timestamp='1483534881' post='3207963'] That's easily the most depressing and wildly inaccurate point of view I've seen since joining this forum. [/quote] Hell no! Not even close!

Sorry mate, you can't have two No.1 rules. It just doesn't work.

That don't make it good. Just playable.

No.1 rule for bass players = Don't make definitive statements about anything, anything at all. Life is contingent.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1483524103' post='3207824'] It's a lot easier to play three chord guitar band tunes from the 60s and 70s than it is to play anything from to 80s-00s. . [/quote] That's because so much of the "music" of the 80s-00s was either pressing the occasional button on a pre-programmed sequencer or simple re-treads of great original music from the 60s and 70s. Next?

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1483521841' post='3207784'] ... & the Drummist is a 25 year old Sassenach from Wick. [/quote] I didn't think anyone from Wick could possibly be described as a Sassenach, or is there a surprisingly large ex-pat colony of jolly old English people there?

I had my 60th last week, held a party in a curry house with all the musicians I've gigged with in the last 10 years. Naturally there was a 2-hour jam session once the curry was all gone. Some pretty decent musicians present, too. The only non-middle-aged people there were my two kids plus three of their friends, all five of them aged 21 - 28. We were playing exactly what you'd expect us to play, and none of it was aimed at the yoof market, but the five youngsters were blown away by it all. They hardly ever check out live music unless it's at a big festival that they can boast about to their friends afterwards. They'd all forgotten about, or had never actually known about, the buzz and the pleasure to be derived from yer actual, live music.

My biggest problem is explaining to the local Irish pubs that my band is four, white, middle-aged Englishmen. It's the 'English' bit that does the damage. Age / colour / religion is of little interest to them. Whether or not we play The Pogues, Thin Lizzy, and ... erm ... "songs for the boys" is what matters.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-player-wanted/electronic-guitar-bass-player-needed-to-appear-in-a-music-video/1208183215 No, not you - they said no time wasters.

I've always been impressed with the wear patterns that Nash inflict on their poor instruments. Given how many photographs exist in the public domain of genuinely old basses with genuine wear patterns, it's really impressive that Nash always manage to make their basses look like a 10-year-old was let loose with an electric sander for a few minutes. Still, £1500 eh? There really is one born every minute.

Tricky blighters, mirrors. Never trust 'em, meself.

The more you do for people, the more they'll let you do. As another serious tinnitus sufferer, I have zero sympathy these days with turn-it-up clowns and I certainly wouldn't be prepared to disrupt my own life to help them with their big swinging dickery. If your guitarist is really a star, he'll get you access all areas next time he plays Wembley or the O2. Otherwise, he can turn down.

Yup. Just you.